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- There are a total of 145 general entries. We are selecting 30 for display.
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Alec Guinness. Guinness did 'Bridge over the River Kwai'.
| Which movie deals with GI's personal readjustment upon returning from WW II? | World War II Movies
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Best Years of Our Lives. Fine, solid movie.
Peter Graves. Great movie. All four choices were in the cast.
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo. 'Sands' was one of John Wayne's better known WW II movies.
James Coburn. Coburn was in 'The Great Escape' - one of the best of the war movies.
Battle Cry. Good movie. From the Leon Uris novel.
| In which movie did Tony Curtis play one of the soldiers who hoisted the flag on Iwo Jima? | World War II Movies
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The Outsider. Good {movie;} sad (but true ) story. The others feature Peck ('Gray Flannel'), McQueen ('War Lover') and Wayne ('Expendable').
Command Decision. All were WW II, but 'Command' was the best of the group - and one of Gable's better movies.
| Which Keanu Reeves movie starred him as a WWII returning soldier who found he no longer loves his wife and falls for the daughter of a vineyard owner? | Military and War Movies
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A Walk In The Clouds. Charming love story about a man who pretends to be the husband of an unmarried woman's baby so her father doesn't kill her. In the end, he ends up falling in love with her AND her family.
| Which movie is about a post-Gulf War episode where a trio of soldiers attempt to steal Saddam Hussein's riches? | Military and War Movies
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Three Kings. Ok so it was a little out there, but still entertaining! Starred George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg and Ice Cube.
Born On The Fourth Of July. True story of a Vietname veteran who turns anti-war and pro-human rights political activist, after feeling betrayed by the country he fought for, and lost the use of his legs for.
Men Of Honor. Robert DeNiro is exceptional in this film as Master Chief Billy Sunday.
| Which movie is about an English reporter who conspires to smuggle an orphaned Bosnian girl out of Sarajevo? | Military and War Movies
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Welcome To Sarajevo. Some of my old professors would call this a journalistic no no - getting emotionally involved with your subject.
Tora! Tora! Tora!. This 1970 flick was about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and how the U.S. failed to prevent it.
| Which movie is a Ridley Scott version of a true war story of the same name written by Mark Bowden? | Military and War Movies
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Black Hawk Down. Stars Josh Hartnett, Tom Sizemore, Ewan McGregor, Sam Shepard and William Fichtner.
GI Jane. Neither a GI nor named Jane, this Demi Moore flick didn't do as well as expected.
Apocalypse Now. Based on the Joseph Conrad novel 'Heart of Darkness.'
| Which movied dramatised the heroic stand of the 2nd Battalion, 24th (2nd Warwickshire) Regiment of Foot at Rorke's Drift? | Death and Glory: War in Movies
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Zulu. This action was at Rorke's Drift, Wednesday 22- Thursday 23 January, 1879, when some 150 soldiers defended a supply station against some 4000 Zulus, aided by the Martini-Henry rifle "with some guts behind it".
| In the Tom Clancy penned "Hunt for Red October", what was the name of the manouvre performed by the Russian U-Boats to see if they were being trailed? | Death and Glory: War in Movies
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Crazy Ivan. US $20,000 was spent on Sean Connery's hairpiece for the movie.
| Who took the title role in World War II escape drama "Von Ryan's Express" where an American officer leads a group of British POWs out of Germany by train? | Death and Glory: War in Movies
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Frank Sinatra . As the Padre begins to type the change orders for the train to be re-routed, he says (in German) the date of 11 Sep 1941. The U.S. was not involved in the war until December 1941. The year should have been 1943.
| Which war movie, apparently set in a tropical climate, was shot almost entirely around Ft. Benning, Georgia and thus had a somewhat less than authentic pine forest background? | Death and Glory: War in Movies
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The Green Berets. Late in the movie John Wayne can be seen to wrap his rappelling rope through a carabineer the wrong way. Called a "fatal hookup" in the army, this would result in an immediate fall once weight was applied.
The Dambusters. "The Dambusters" showed the daring raid carried out by Lancaster bombers carrying the revolutionary "bouncing bomb" as developed by Barnes Wallis.
David Bowie. The actors playing POWs use their actual names in the hospital roll-call scene.
Lee Marvin . "Hell in the Pacific" was John Boorman's only war movie.
Despite being 101 minutes long it has almost no dialogue.
Paths of Glory. The title is a quotation from Thomas Grey's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard": "The paths of glory lead but to the grave".
An elephant. Imitating the original Hannibal's legendary crossing of the Alps with his war elephants, this enjoyable romp from director Michael Winner was a minor hit for Oliver Reed.
| Which star-studded Richard Attenborough-directed epic boasted a cast that includes, amongst others: Sean Connery, James Caan, Laurence Olivier, Dirk Bogarde, Gene Hackman, Michael Caine, Anthony Hopkins, Robert Redford, Ryan O'Neal, Elliot Gould and Edward Fox? | Death and Glory: War in Movies
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A Bridge Too Far. "A Bridge Too Far" was a somewhat overworked dramatisation of the Allied advance through Holland, codename Operation Market Garden. Operation Market Garden also constituted a large part of the award-winning TV series, "Band of Brothers".
| Tom Clancy aside, few authors of military books have had their works so readily adapted to film as Scotsman Alistair MacLean. Only one of MacLean's books, however, was written specifically at the request of a producer who "needed a good war story". Which? | Death and Glory: War in Movies
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Where Eagles Dare. The impetus actually came from the movie's star Richard Burton who approached producer Elliot Kastner looking for a suitable project after Burton's son had asked to see his father in a war movie. Kastner approached MacLean and the rest is...
Two names are missing from the list below, which two?
Bronson, Cassavetes, Brown, Lopez, Savalas, Cooper, Carruthers, Busby, Maitland, Mancini. | Death and Glory: War in Movies
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Sutherland and Walker. Donald Sutherland and Clint Walker are the missing two, playing, as they did, Vernon L. Pinkley and Samson Posey , the remaining the members of 1967's legendary, "Dirty Dozen".
| Classic World War II actioner, "Guns of Navarone" was followed up in 1978 by which lacklustre sequel starring Robert Shaw and Harrison Ford? | Death and Glory: War in Movies
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Force Ten From Navarone. In "Guns of Navarone", David Niven wears a Rifle Brigade cap badge on his beret, this was the regiment he was commissioned into in WW2.
U-571. "U-571" depicts the capture in the autumn of 1941 of an Enigma code book from a German submarine. The vessel and crew were portrayed entirely in an American context despite the fact that the US had not even entered WWII by autumn of '41.
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